The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem by Jeremy Dauber - HARD COVER
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The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem — Jeremy Dauber The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye FANTASTIC READ! Throughout this comprehensive biography, Dauber shapes his readings of Sholem Aleichem’s life and works partly as a response to the many myths and misconceptions that have abounded since (and often even before) the author’s death in 1916. Despite some of Aleichem’s most famous moments having taken place in New York — for example, his death and vastly attended funeral as well as his ultimately unsuccessful double premier on the Yiddish stage — the author was not as immersed in this “New World” as many seem to think. His time in America was short-lived in comparison to the time he spent living, writing, and traveling across Eastern and Western Europe. But this “Jewish Mark Twain,” as he was often referred to in his time, was not a sentimental folklorist either; he was not simply a traditionalist pining for the “Old Country,” for a simple and quickly vanishing way of life. Through careful retellings and analyses, Dauber presents a more nuanced picture: of a man torn between new and deep-rooted ways of life, a man who adapted to the pulls of new technologies, shifting cultural values, and political upheavals just as often as he resisted them. Aleichem was also someone intensely and unswervingly tied to his family, and Dauber expertly navigates between all of these inevitably inseparable worlds to give us a full and generous portrait of this great cultural figure. As he writes in his introduction, turning a spotlight on Sholem Aleichem’s life is a way of entering into a conversation not only about the writer himself, but also about “American Jewish life and American Jewish history over the last century.” Easily one of my favorite books (Top Ten) I read of the almost 100 in 2023. Here's a list I made (although I went back and alphabetized it) of the writings by Sholem Aleichem (also a few of his writer friends) mentioned in this book (so I could read (some of ?) them sometime. Shalom Alichem’s friend and Yiddish writer he admired Hayyim Nachman Bialik (poem: Fraynd ) Another writer: Ben-Ami Another contemporary: Sholem Asch - play - God of Vengence The Flood, Undzer Lebn (serialized) Shalom Alichem’s real name: Shalom Rabinovich Isaac Babel - the Red Cavalry stories A Banquet of Flowers A Bit of Advice A Country Passover A Doctor for the Bridegroom A Game of Sixty-Six - short story Agents An Honorable Profession A Jewish daughter A journey around the world A Merry Wedding - Victor recording A Mighty Uproar A Story About a Greenhorn - 1915 Afikomen a Passover story An Early Passover An Easy Fast Auto-da-Fe A White Bird Beasley -about a childless village couple, who take in a bear cub and raise it as their own is dedicated to the notion that a bear, even when care for, and loved, remains a bear, and will eventually rampage and murder Baranovitch Station Berl-Ayzik - short story Berrdichev Entire Burnt Out - 1903 Cnards Chava — Tevye’s Daughter Children’s Game - revised in 1913 Children of the Pale - for children David son of David Elijah the Prophet Eternal Life Four Goblets Four Questions From Passover to Sukkot From Nakewskis to Marienbad - a series chronicling the summer lives of wealthy Jews at European spas. ) From the Fair Geese Gitl Purishkevitch (translation: genuine populist) monologue Haman and Mordechai: a true story in honor of Purim Hamelitz Hard to Be a Jew (a play - substantially reworked version of The Bloody Hoax ) Homesick Home for Passover (Passover story) If I were a Rothchild - Victor recording In Haste (Passover story) In the Bookstore In the Storm - revised in 1913 It Cannot Be (Dreyfus in Kasrilevke) Sketches from Berdichev Street Jewish Luck - Yidishe Glikn-1925 Kapores Lag Ba’omer Laughing Through Tears - ( merging The Enchanted Tailor and Motl’s adventurers) made into Soviet movie - 1928 Lekh-Lekho (Get Thee Out) Lunatics Marienbad ( From Nakewskis to Marienbad in book form Methuselah: A Jewish Horse Mister Boym in the Closet - playlet Mister Green Has a Job Motl, the Cantor’s Son My Vacation - also known as: Once There Were Four ‘Off for America’ autobiographical sketches as published in The World Magazine part of Joseph Pulitzer’s The New York World newspaper - Sholem Alecheim died before finishing this as a complete novel On Account of a Hat - 1913 (“…finest story”) (Passover story) One Thousand and One Nights - a play Pages from the Song of Songs Paradise - one-act farce Purchased Eternal Life - 1912? Ravchik: A Jewish Dog Reb Velvele from this world Reb Yosifl and the Contractor -1902 Sabbath Eve Samuel Shmekkes and his Jubilee - written while at Nervi, Italy, recovering Scattered and Dispersed Sender, Blank, and his highly esteemed family: a novel without a love story . Shmuel Pasternak - revision of Yaknehoz Stempenyu - Jewish Daughters - the Jewish Paganini - novel Tevye Blows a Small Fortune Tevye Leaves for the Land of Israel Tevye the Dairyman (The Jackpot) Tevye the Eternal Optimist Tevye Strikes It Rich Tevye’s Daughters - English 1948 - a collection published by Crown The Bill of Divorce The Bloody Hoax -1912 - serialized novel current events includ blood libel court case The Clock The Competitors The Convoy The Deluge - friction that exists both between & within generations - revised in 1913 The Divorce The Dove (by Mordkhe Spektor - who also wrote House-friend) The Election The Enchanted Tailor The First Jewish republic - page 199 The Five Letters . The shortest novel in the world, written in three parts, with an epilogue and a riddle in the American fashion, special for the LODZ TAGEBLAT. The Flag The Goldspinners - 1909 The Intercepted Letters - Character, Mwnakhem-Mendl The Jackpot (200,000) a play The Judgment The King of Spades - play The Little Red Jews (subsection of The Ten Lost Tribes) The Malicious Matza The Man from Buenos Aires The Mistake - a novel about NY Jewish Life The Old Country - 1946 published in English The Pair - “…his best animal story..” The Penknife The Railroad Stories The Scoundrel - play The Search The Squire’s h’Omelette Third Class - 1902 Shraga - play Three Widows They ask me why I weep Today’s Children Two Dead Men Two Stones - a Passover story The Wedding That Came Without It’s Band - The (Slowpoke) Express The World Goes Backwards - cinema-fantasia in honor of Chanukah Wandering Stars - novel What is Chanukah? Whither - a play he burned after a “bad: reading, returned to working on The Treasure (the Gold Diggers ) Yosele Solovery - novel Zelig Mechanic (or Zelig the Tailor ) Please see and examine all pictures for details, they are considered part of the description. Items are sold “AS IS” and NO RETURNS unless otherwise listed with conditions. Everything is packed with extreme care. We bubble wrap to reduce/eliminate damage during shipping. We used recycled boxes to help keep shipping rates as low as possible, we will always try to use suitable boxes for your item, but may have company logos, writings, or markings. Visit our store for many more items like this! CHECK OUT OUR STORE, Burman's Basement, HAS MANY UNIQUE TREASURES, WE ARE HAPPY TO COMBINE SHIPPING WHEN POSSIBLE
